Labels text in PDF

[doc hawk]

On Jul 22, 2026, at 5:19 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> The only ‘product’ of the app was for some time capturing a PNG to the clipboard.  Then a user requested a save to PDF feature.  I thought this would be quick and easy, only to discover that the PDF rendered had many missing words in the label fields.  The text missing looks pretty random, not just cropped at left or right of the field.  It is also consistent, so same words missing on each execution, and weirdly also only whole words, as far as I can see.

Some dusty old brain cells are trying to get my attention, with limited success.

I ran into an issue a few years ago with formatting changing.  I *want* to say that it involved
copy & paste of fields not preserving everything about their margins.

I think that the solution was to store the margins I wanted as a custom property, and have a script that would cycle through everything setting margins.

There may have been something else about the properties of pasted text and the properties of the field.